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by yashap 4y ago
First class functions are a lot less interesting without functional data structures, with methods like map, filter, reduce, etc. These were added in Java 8, but Go has always been against them. This may change with generics, people can cert
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by yashap 4y ago
Agreed with the article, though obviously it’s a bit dated (especially around generics and package management). My take is that Go is basically the new Java, with fewer abstractions and faster compilation. Although, the pre-Java 8 Java, bef
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by yashap 4y ago
2 years is less than I’d expect. I remember an 18 year old kid got 1.5 years for creating a variant of the Blaster worm (not even the original), and I don’t think he even profited from it? This guy is a fully grown adult, created an illegal
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by yashap 4y ago
Yeah, agreed, though if you’re using Redis as central pub/sub infra in an environment with tonnes of different services who produce and consume events, a migration can get tedious. Certainly not as bad as traditional DB migrations, but
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by yashap 4y ago
For me, for a “fully self driving” feature to be ready for wide market sales, it needs to be as good or better than a human. A more “drive assist” feature, like current Tesla autopilot, where there has to be a human driver ready to take ove
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by yashap 4y ago
Redis isn’t used exclusively as a cache. It’s used a lot as a job queue, as an event bus, for session storage, etc. Some even use it as a core source of truth database, though this is rarely a good idea IMO.
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by yashap 4y ago
Yeah, my high school started at 8:50 am too, and that still felt too early. This article mentioned that Seattle high schools used to start at 7:50 am, that seems absolutely nuts. I’d peg roughly 9:30 am as a good time for high schools to st
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by yashap 4y ago
Ah interesting, didn’t know that. Certainly their main use case that drove their growth, though, has been a simple “get signatures on a document over the internet” product. Also, if the CLM product targets a Salesforce integration, sounds l
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by yashap 4y ago
Interesting combo of very impressive, and also clearly not ready for general availability. It’s doing something noticeably wrong every few minutes. It’s so hard to guess how close this really is, but I’d guess … a few years or so? I’d imagi
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by yashap 4y ago
It was a good read, thanks for writing it. Also, assuming this is correct: > Almost no SMB views contract management as an urgent problem. And I think it probably is, then IMO you made the right decision. I don’t know the space very well
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by yashap 4y ago
Did not know about this, but thanks, seems quite useful!
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by yashap 4y ago
Tesla’s HQ is on the outskirts of Palo Alto, pre-pandemic most employees commuted in from San Francisco or San Jose. It’s a 3-4 hr bike ride each way from SF, or a 1.5-2 hr bike ride each way from SJ. Not exactly practical. Public transit
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by yashap 4y ago
I know a lawyer who works exclusively in the tech space, who’s dealt with Musk companies a number of times. He said they use the slimiest tactics he’s ever seen, are constantly acting in bad faith. Would not surprise me one bit if this was
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by yashap 4y ago
As someone who’s done lots of RESTful (or RESTish) json/HTTP APIs, lots of gRPC, and lots of GraphQL … the simplest, best solution in almost all cases is RESTful json/HTTP APIs. There’s really no need for gRPC for the rest of us,
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by yashap 4y ago
Just let people query for an empty page every now and then, no big deal.
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by yashap 4y ago
In 2016, Gartner estimated that Google ran ~2.5 million servers ( https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2017/03/16/goog... ), and it’s probably even more today. Obviously Google are an extreme outli
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by yashap 4y ago
Wit.ai?
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by yashap 4y ago
Agreed, although it’s not always fire-and-forget (i.e. send a message and don’t wait for a response). Actors generally do support request/response style messaging, but it’s always async - it’s really only synchronous request/respo
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by yashap 4y ago
Actors are useful for keeping code clean/understandable/correct when dealing with heavy concurrency AND lots of mutable state. Actors are like objects, but the only way to interact with them is sending them a message - you can’t d
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by yashap 4y ago
Humans place a high priority on saving the lives of their countrymen/women, and IMO that makes a lot of sense. It’s not about “hopefully she pays that back in taxes in the future,” it’s “I want to live in a society where, if my life ca
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by yashap 4y ago
Yeah, this is the one. If a page is slow loading, works poorly without JS, has a noisy layout, etc., you’re gonna hear more about that in the comments than the actual content. Overall though, these guidelines are mostly followed surprisingl
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by yashap 4y ago
From the first post in this blog series ( https://sparelabs.com/blog/income-and-microtransit-diversity... ), I thought this was pretty interesting: > Strikingly, the bulk of high-income riders have much longer total j
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by yashap 4y ago
To solve Vehicle Routing Problems at my company we use jsprit, and have integrated it with lpsolve. jsprit natively schedules stops into time buckets, then we use a linear equation solved by lpsolve to move them to precise ideal times. Work
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by yashap 4y ago
Ah good point!
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by yashap 4y ago
A missing one - “ridiculously hidden downgrade/cancel option for subscription service.” Just encountered this in a major way trying to cancel my Audible subscription - searched for 10-15 mins on both the app and mobile web, there’s an
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by yashap 5y ago
Generics are wildly, WILDLY popular in functional programming - far more so than in imperative flavours of OOP, really. Basically every functional data structure is full of things like List[A].map(func: A => B): List[B] Also, it’s really
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by yashap 5y ago
IntelliJ IDEA is the first that springs to mind - very popular Java app that ships with a bundled JRE. Not sure I’d call it “lightweight”, it does take awhile to boot up, but once it boots it’s a great app.
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by yashap 5y ago
Clients can only retry idempotent requests safely. Standard POSTs, for example, cannot be safely retried - you can end up with duplicates.
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by yashap 5y ago
> She’s uploaded 117 subscriber-only videos so far, and each one only gets around 150 views on average. Her most viewed video has around 815 views. … Her bandwidth usage was within the top 1 percent of Vimeo users, the company said Well
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by yashap 5y ago
There’s better ways to do this - personally I’ve found the approach taken in this tiny lib very reliable: https://github.com/flexdinesh/browser-or-node/blob/master/sr...

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